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Past exam of the physics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2012 Paper 1 Section A 4 Solution by
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To find the magnitude uncertainty of a series RL impedance, put . Then andIf the quoted errors are independent standard uncertainties, and giveIf they denote strict bounds instead, the first-order bound is . The source does not specify their statistical interpretation, so these two error conventions should not be conflated.
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